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Do you find yourself trapped in the quicksand of anxious attachment, overanalyzing every word, action, and moment in your relationship? Do you feel clingy and fear your partner might abandon you at any time? Does even the slightest shift in their behavior catapult you into panic and doubt?

The gospel of God is the Bread of the Presence, and it reaches down into the deepest, darkest, ugliest recesses of the human spirit, the places polite chit-chat won’t allow, the places watery juice doesn’t open up, the places where crawfish and other creeping things of the swamps live. These are the places in which we run to the altar and find the bread, still warm. Places in which we begin to get full. Where our only food becomes God Himself. .

Madison didn’t want to be the last hope for humanity, she just wanted chocolate cake. Now, rather than dining on delicious, sugary, baked happiness, she finds herself elbows deep in undercooked oatmeal. What starts as a last ditch effort to save her family unravels into a last rites ceremony for everything she knew.